Modern Life Quotes - Page 3

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.